Robert L Montgomery
Biographic Data
| ID | 107953 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert L Montgomery |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert L |
| FAMILY NAME | Montgomery |
| SIGNATURE | MONTGOMERY R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Missouri University of Science and Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
My Pilgrimage in Mission
As a missionary among the aboriginals in Taiwan, I wondered why this people’s response to the gospel was so open, compared with that of the Chinese of my youth and the Taiwanese majority population. This question became almost an obsession for me. After sixteen happy years in service in Taiwan still holding my question, I began another stage in my pilgrimage in mission in graduate school seeking for answers. I continued my ministry in America, wr…
Special Persons and the Spread of Religions
Conversion and the Historic Spread of Religions
A useful way of reviewing the different understandings of conversion is to examine conversion in connection with the spread of religions through propagation and conversion. Three religions in particular, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam, have been the most missionary of the world religions. This chapter considers conversion in the light of the historic spread of these three religions. Their spread is viewed social scientifically as being the res…
Personality, achievement test scores, and high school percentile as predictors of academic performance across four years of coursework
The Lopsided Spread of Christianity: Toward an Understanding of the Diffusion of Religions
Journal Article The Lopsided Spread of Christianity: Toward an Understanding of the Diffusion of Religions, by Robert L. Montgomery. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2002, 208pp.; $87.95 USD (cloth) Get access Jon L. Berquist Jon L. Berquist Westminster John Knox Press Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 66, Issue 3, Fall 2005, Pages 327–329, https://doi.org/10.2307/4153106 Publi…
Psychological Correlates of Optimism in College Students
This study assessed optimism held by 300 college students at a midwestern university using Scheier and Carver's Life Orientation Test. Optimism ratings were compared to measures of psychological functioning. Analysis showed that optimism was significantly associated with all of the adjustment measures (social, academic, personal, and goal commitment) assessed with Baker and Siryk's Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire, higher self-esteem m…
The Invention of Religion: Rethinking Belief in Politics and History
Silencing the Self in College Settings and Adjustment
The correlations among several measures of silencing the self and scores on the College Adjustment Scale were assessed for male and female students at a midwestern university (N = 143). Analysis showed that high scores on Jack's 1991 Silencing the Self Scale and on one of three new measures designed to extend silencing the self to social group settings were associated with scores indicating poorer college adjustment. Also, men scored higher than …
The Diffusion of Religions: A Sociological Perspective
Of the major world religions, only three, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam have diffused widely. They were introduced across numerous socio-cultural boundaries and were received as new religions to their converts. However, these diffusing religions have had varying degrees of success from wholesale reception to wholesale rejection. This book presents the perspective that a major factor in the variations in the diffusions of these religions, and …
Petrarch's Songbook: Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta
Francis Petrarch. Petrarch's Songbook: Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta. Verse trans. James Wyatt Cook. Ed. Gianfranco Contini. Intro. Germaine Warkentin. Binghamton, NY: Medieval and Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1996. xii + 446 pp. Cloth and paper. - Volume 50 Issue 4
The “Imaginary Audience,” Self-Handicapping, and Drinking Patterns among College Students
A study of 80 midwestern college students indicated that higher scores on Lapsley's 1990 Imaginary Audience scale were associated with lower grades, greater use of immature self-handicapping strategies, and several negative consequences associated with drinking alcohol
Age of First Use and Present Use of Alcohol by Undergraduates
This study assessed age of first experimentation with alcohol and its present use and consequences of use by 231 college students at a midwestern university. Early alcohol use was significantly associated with present use of alcohol, negative consequences of present alcohol use, and several measures of adjustment including academic and personal-emotional adjustment
Undergraduate Adjustment to College, Drinking Behavior, and Fraternity Membership
This study examined the relationship between adjustment to college as measured by Baker and Siryk's 1986 Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire, drinking patterns, and various aspects of student life (e.g., fraternity or sorority membership). A total of 114 students participated. Pearson product-moment correlations indicated several significant relationships
Personal vs Social Motivations of Undergraduates for using Alcohol
The personal vs social motivations for using alcohol were assessed for 109 undergraduates attending a midwestern technical university. Analysis indicated that alcohol was consumed more for social than for personal reasons and that men used alcohol more than women for the social reasons of meeting new people and meeting members of the opposite sex and for the personal reason of feeling better about themselves. Use was also associated with being a …
Undergraduate Adjustment to College, Drinking Behavior, and Fraternity Membership 1
This study examined the relationship between adjustment to college as measured by Baker and Siryk's 1986 Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire, drinking patterns, and various aspects of student life (e.g., fraternity or sorority membership). A total of 114 students participated. Pearson product-moment correlations indicated several significant relationships
The Spread of Religions and Macrosocial Relations
The spread of religions and quasi religions over the last two millennia has been part of the process by which groups and societies have beenrequired to define themselves in response to outside pressures. Acceptance, rejection, or mix~d acceptance of religions introduced from the outside are highly dependent on intersocietal relations in which receiving societies perceive themselves to be threatened by the society from which the religion comes or …
Crosscutting Distinctions in Approaches to Meeting Human Needs
Organizations related to religious bodies and organizations that are secular, both aimed at meeting human needs, have become distinguished from one another in this century. Cutting across these two types of organizations is the service delivery/ social change distinction. Insights from organizational theory are used to explore reasons for the persistence of these distinctions
Demography and pathology of an urban slave population from New Orleans
Twenty‐nine skeletons from the first cemetery in New Orleans provide significant new information about urban slavery in America. Dating as early as 1720 and used perhaps as late as 1810, the cemetery provided an identifiable sample of two whites, 13 blacks, one individual of possible Indian‐white ancestry, and two possibly mulatto individuals. Numerous skeletal and dental lesions were noted in the series, and historical information was used in co…
On the Defense of the Comedy of Dante
Purposefully biased interactions: Reducing heterosocial anxiety through self-perception theory
Bias in Interpreting Social Facts: Is It a Sin
The norms that underly the development of science in seventeenth century England have been the subject of much study. Robert Merton, a pioneer in the field of the sociology of science, has also identified norms that are currently important in the ethos of science. However, the current normative structure of science can only be accounted for by developments in the 19th century which modified the earlier norms emphasizing the power of reason. Herbe…
Self-Report and Behavioral Measures with Heterosocially Anxious Subjects
The present study examined two behavioral indicators, i.e., the number of initiations of conversation and the number of personal statements uttered in a brief conversation, for 26 heterosocially anxious males as they interacted with a female confederate and correlated these measures with scores on five self-report scales. Most self-report measures correlated well with one another and the personal statements measure correlated with two of the self…
Role Conflict for Aides in a Homemaker Aide Program for Frail Elderly Persons
To determine whether aides in a homemaker program for the frail rural elderly experienced role conflict, the views of clients, aides, and staff were examined by means of an 18-item Likert-type test which assessed the difficulty of an aide in various possible problematic situations. While consensus existed among the three groups on a few items, a significant interaction of clients, aides, staff × item indicated that, for the most part, whether or …
Reference Groups as Anchors in Judgments of other Groups: A Biasing Factor in “Rating Tasks”
A phenomenon which might bias rating tasks (the reference group as an anchor phenomenon) was explored by having 144 male undergraduate members of Greek, eating club, and independent organizations, and students belonging to none of these organizations rank 28 campus organizations in terms of relative prestige. In general, members of groups consistently overestimated the prestige of their own (assimilation effect), under-estimated the prestige of o…
Sir Philip Sidney: The Maker's Mind
Demography and pathology of an urban slave population from New Orleans
Twenty‐nine skeletons from the first cemetery in New Orleans provide significant new information about urban slavery in America. Dating as early as 1720 and used perhaps as late as 1810, the cemetery provided an identifiable sample of two whites, 13 blacks, one individual of possible Indian‐white ancestry, and two possibly mulatto individuals. Numerous skeletal and dental lesions were noted in the series, and historical information was used in co…
Personality, achievement test scores, and high school percentile as predictors of academic performance across four years of coursework
Arbitrary norms and social change in high- and low-authoritarian societies
Following Jacobs and Campbell's methodology for replacing confederates and naive subjects over 11 successive generations, this study considered the impact of authoritarianism on the rate of social change of arbitrary norms in laboratory societies. Subjects were 116 college students scoring high and low on the California F scale who participated in an autokinetic experiment either with no confederates (control), confederates who made estimates in …
Autokinetic Paradigms: A Reply to Alexander, Zucker and Brody
Symmetry and Sense: The Poetry of Sir Philip Sidney
Few Elizabethans left the image of their personalities cut so deeply into the Renaissance imagination as did Sir Philip Sidney. Widely admired in his own time, Sidney must seem to the modern reader almost universally accomplished. His talents as courtier, diplomat, soldier, scholar, novelist, and poet are history. Almost immediately after Sidney's death in battle against the Spaniards in the Low Countries, the process of legend began, and the leg…
The Draft Lottery and Cognitive Imbalance
The resultant attitudes of college students toward the draft lottery were used in an empirical check on Heider's cognitive imbalance theory. Support for the theory was found in comparing a control group, unaffected by the lottery, with a directly affected experimental group. The means of the first-to-be drafted in the experimental group were significantly smaller than those of the first-to-be drafted in the control group and showed that the first…
Predicting Behavior in a Social Influence-Situation from Attitude-Scale Measures of Prejudice
To determine whether Ss with high or low scores on attitude scales measuring prejudice would be influenced differently by black and white confederates, 40 high- and 40 low-scoring white college students participated in an autokinetic study for two sessions. In Session I, Ss participated alone and were anchored to see the light move 1 to 5 in. During Session II, Ss participated with either a black or white confederate who made estimates in a range…
Birth Order, Graduate School, and Marriage
The results from previous research have shown that firstborn children have both higher needs for achievement and greater needs for affiliation than do later borns. Sampson (1962) found a higher achievement need (see McClelland, 1961) among firstborns than Later borns, and Schachter (1963) discovered that firstborns are over-represented in graduate schools, a finding which also suggests that firstborns have a higher need for achievement. In additi…
Religious Practice and Orthodoxy among Catholic Students as a Function of Parents' Beliefs and Religious Training
of the student. The religious orthodoxy items for the student were repeated in Items 47 to 52 for the student's father and in Items 53 to 58 for the student's mother. Orthodoxy scales for the parents were used so that a measure of the similarity berween the students' and their parents' strength of opinion about the teachings of the Catholic church and Catholic doctrine could be developed. Five additional items had to do with religious practices o…
Autokinetic Paradigms: A Reply to Alexander, Zucker and Brody
On Needs for Perceptual Structures: Commentary and Reply
The Poetry of Sir Philip Sidney: An Interpretation in the Context of His Life and Times
J. G. Nichols. The Poetry of Sir Philip Sidney: An Interpretation in the Context of His Life and Times. English Texts and Studies. London-New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1974. Frontispiece, x+171 pp. $14. - Volume 29 Issue 1
Arbitrary norms and social change in high- and low-authoritarian societies
Following Jacobs and Campbell's methodology for replacing confederates and naive subjects over 11 successive generations, this study considered the impact of authoritarianism on the rate of social change of arbitrary norms in laboratory societies. Subjects were 116 college students scoring high and low on the California F scale who participated in an autokinetic experiment either with no confederates (control), confederates who made estimates in …
Sir Philip Sidney: The Maker's Mind
Reference Groups as Anchors in Judgments of other Groups: A Biasing Factor in “Rating Tasks”
A phenomenon which might bias rating tasks (the reference group as an anchor phenomenon) was explored by having 144 male undergraduate members of Greek, eating club, and independent organizations, and students belonging to none of these organizations rank 28 campus organizations in terms of relative prestige. In general, members of groups consistently overestimated the prestige of their own (assimilation effect), under-estimated the prestige of o…
Self-Report and Behavioral Measures with Heterosocially Anxious Subjects
The present study examined two behavioral indicators, i.e., the number of initiations of conversation and the number of personal statements uttered in a brief conversation, for 26 heterosocially anxious males as they interacted with a female confederate and correlated these measures with scores on five self-report scales. Most self-report measures correlated well with one another and the personal statements measure correlated with two of the self…
Role Conflict for Aides in a Homemaker Aide Program for Frail Elderly Persons
To determine whether aides in a homemaker program for the frail rural elderly experienced role conflict, the views of clients, aides, and staff were examined by means of an 18-item Likert-type test which assessed the difficulty of an aide in various possible problematic situations. While consensus existed among the three groups on a few items, a significant interaction of clients, aides, staff × item indicated that, for the most part, whether or …
Purposefully biased interactions: Reducing heterosocial anxiety through self-perception theory
Bias in Interpreting Social Facts: Is It a Sin
The norms that underly the development of science in seventeenth century England have been the subject of much study. Robert Merton, a pioneer in the field of the sociology of science, has also identified norms that are currently important in the ethos of science. However, the current normative structure of science can only be accounted for by developments in the 19th century which modified the earlier norms emphasizing the power of reason. Herbe…
On the Defense of the Comedy of Dante
Crosscutting Distinctions in Approaches to Meeting Human Needs
Organizations related to religious bodies and organizations that are secular, both aimed at meeting human needs, have become distinguished from one another in this century. Cutting across these two types of organizations is the service delivery/ social change distinction. Insights from organizational theory are used to explore reasons for the persistence of these distinctions
Demography and pathology of an urban slave population from New Orleans
Twenty‐nine skeletons from the first cemetery in New Orleans provide significant new information about urban slavery in America. Dating as early as 1720 and used perhaps as late as 1810, the cemetery provided an identifiable sample of two whites, 13 blacks, one individual of possible Indian‐white ancestry, and two possibly mulatto individuals. Numerous skeletal and dental lesions were noted in the series, and historical information was used in co…
The Spread of Religions and Macrosocial Relations
The spread of religions and quasi religions over the last two millennia has been part of the process by which groups and societies have beenrequired to define themselves in response to outside pressures. Acceptance, rejection, or mix~d acceptance of religions introduced from the outside are highly dependent on intersocietal relations in which receiving societies perceive themselves to be threatened by the society from which the religion comes or …
Undergraduate Adjustment to College, Drinking Behavior, and Fraternity Membership
This study examined the relationship between adjustment to college as measured by Baker and Siryk's 1986 Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire, drinking patterns, and various aspects of student life (e.g., fraternity or sorority membership). A total of 114 students participated. Pearson product-moment correlations indicated several significant relationships
Personal vs Social Motivations of Undergraduates for using Alcohol
The personal vs social motivations for using alcohol were assessed for 109 undergraduates attending a midwestern technical university. Analysis indicated that alcohol was consumed more for social than for personal reasons and that men used alcohol more than women for the social reasons of meeting new people and meeting members of the opposite sex and for the personal reason of feeling better about themselves. Use was also associated with being a …
Undergraduate Adjustment to College, Drinking Behavior, and Fraternity Membership 1
This study examined the relationship between adjustment to college as measured by Baker and Siryk's 1986 Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire, drinking patterns, and various aspects of student life (e.g., fraternity or sorority membership). A total of 114 students participated. Pearson product-moment correlations indicated several significant relationships
Age of First Use and Present Use of Alcohol by Undergraduates
This study assessed age of first experimentation with alcohol and its present use and consequences of use by 231 college students at a midwestern university. Early alcohol use was significantly associated with present use of alcohol, negative consequences of present alcohol use, and several measures of adjustment including academic and personal-emotional adjustment
The “Imaginary Audience,” Self-Handicapping, and Drinking Patterns among College Students
A study of 80 midwestern college students indicated that higher scores on Lapsley's 1990 Imaginary Audience scale were associated with lower grades, greater use of immature self-handicapping strategies, and several negative consequences associated with drinking alcohol
Petrarch's Songbook: Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta
Francis Petrarch. Petrarch's Songbook: Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta. Verse trans. James Wyatt Cook. Ed. Gianfranco Contini. Intro. Germaine Warkentin. Binghamton, NY: Medieval and Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1996. xii + 446 pp. Cloth and paper. - Volume 50 Issue 4
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